Help with .times do please

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Hey, i could swear i had something like (ring 6.,8.)times do working, but i forgot how to do that.
my guess doesnt work and i cant figure out the solution.
please help me thanks
marc

2

Maybe with length no ?

(ring :c,:d).length.times do
puts "hello"
end
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3

Or maybe you are thinking of each?

(ring :c, :d).each do |n|
  play n
  sleep 1
end
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4

Indeed this is more logical than my pretty silly suggestion :+1:

5

Good morning, thanks for your suggestion, but i dont know how to implement it so i have the same result.

samps2 = "C:/Users/Gott/Desktop/scales1"


live_loop :pro1, sync: :metro do
  use_random_seed get(:randseeed)
  
  8.times do
    
      sample samps2, "cmin", onset: choose, amp: 1 if (spread 8,8).choose
    sleep 0.25
  end
end
6

@holz: is your example above something that doesn’t do what you want it to do?
(It’s not quite clear what you’re trying to achieve)

7

oh well i thought its clear sorry.
the above is working fine i wanted to change that

samps2 = "C:/Users/Gott/Desktop/scales1"


live_loop :pro1, sync: :metro do
  use_random_seed get(:randseeed)

  #(to change the amount of times each round)#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  (ring 6.,8.)times do
    
      sample samps2, "cmin", onset: choose, amp: 1 if (spread 8,8).choose
    sleep 0.25
  end
end
8

Your second example here almost works. I made a few changes to get it working on my system:

  • Changing the sample path to something that works on my system
  • Removed the sync: since I didn’t need it for this small test
  • Changing the get to a number (so that it doesn’t end up as nil because of the missing variable only defined on your system)
  • Changing the 6. and 8. to either 6 and 8 or 6.0 and 8.0 so that Sonic Pi doesn’t end up getting confused over a syntax error
  • Added .tick(:t) to the ‘repetitions ring’ so that it was stepped through every cycle around the live_loop. (This might have been the missing piece of the puzzle for you?)
  • changed "cmin" to pick so that the sample pack filter would find something to play (since there would be no samples matching "cmin" on my computer)
  • added a puts test outside the times block just to make it obvious that the varying amount of repetition worked

Here’s the result:

samps2 = "~/repos/sonic-pi/main/etc/samples"

live_loop :pro1 do
  use_random_seed 0
  
  #(to change the amount of times each round)#!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  (ring 6.0,8.0).tick(:t).times do
    
    sample samps2, pick, onset: choose, amp: 1 if (spread 8,8).choose
    sleep 0.25
  end
  puts "test"
end
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9

thanks ethan!
i really appreciate it. its kinda frustating if you know u had it before xD

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